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Celebrate Read Across America Day with your kindergartener by playing an alphabet balloon volley game inspired by "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" by Dr. Seuss.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

This simple bookmaking activity will introduce and reinforce alphabet and number recognition skills that have been taught at home or learned in preschool.

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

Practicing letters and words by writing them out is all well and good, but spelling out your practice words with old puzzle pieces is a lot more fun!

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Silent "e" words are a big part of first grade phonics. Help them turn words like "hop" to "hope" in this action-packed, practical game.

Children will love this arts and crafts activity. Write an "invisible" message in white crayon, then paint over it to reveal the secret!

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Challenge your budding wordsmith to see how many words he can make out of his own name, using homemade flashcards.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Most kids love to play spy. Here's a way to have fun with mysterious codes while mastering an ordinary, necessary skill: first grade spelling.

Make cards this May Day celebrating the arrival of springtime.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Determination can go along way, especially in difficult times. In this home activity, your child will hear the true story of Ivy, the very determined dog, who plays, loves, and runs, just like the other dogs, even though she does not have the ability to

This hunt for leprechaun gold is so much fun, kids won't even realize they're working their reading muscles at the same time.

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

How do you turn an everyday object into a scary skeleton? This project is the perfect way to practice counting while using cotton swabs to create a skeleton.

Add a Hannukah twist to Chutes and Ladders by using a dreidel as the dice.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

Improve your child's hand-eye coordination with these fun dribbling drills! Before you know it he'll be a ball-handling master.

Expand your child's geographic awareness with these fun and easy map lessons.